prepaid cell phones?

Question

I live in NJ. I am looking for a cheap cell phone plan. The cell phone will be used for urgent needs only, while driving. So I don't need a lot of minutes. And I don't necessarily need free weekend calling (since I have that with my work cell phone).

I heard about prepaid cell phones, that don't require a contract. That would be prefect, but is there a catch here?

Any advice will by highly appreciated, Thanks?

Answer 1

You use up the minutes quick and end up paying more in the long run. Plus often times the prepaid phones have more dropped calls or less signals. We had one and got rid of it quick and now we have Verizon and love it.

Answer 2

Well no pay as you go plans have free weekends, but go phones from cingular is like having a regular plan with out contracts but the cheapest go phone pick you plan is 30 dollars each month with up to 200 minutes 15 cents per minute but you don't have free weekends, there is one for 40 dollars and you have 1000 nights and weekend minutes and up to 300 minutes 0.133 cents per minute. There is only a catch for a pay as you go plan that your minutes may expire in a year or so.

Answer 3

Tracfone is pretty good.
It's a prepaid phone and there are no contracts or catches. You MAY have to use your minutes within a certain amount of time or they will expire (I may be wrong through). It does take off a few minutes for simply connecting a call. Overall, for emergency use, I think it's pretty good to have. I had one and it got a good signal and had a voice mailbox too.

Answer 4

Prepaid are available from Cingular,Tmobile, don't know about Sprint though, there is no catch, you (oh yeah)you do pay alot more money for the phone, but after that, you just keep buying refill cards and you're set, I let my son use a prepaid, darn it, he's only 9

Answer 5

cingular is pretty good I have one and if you by online you can get one from 29.99-200.00 and you pick the plan you want also they have nice phones and cheap